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ISWC
1997
IEEE
15 years 8 months ago
Stochasticks: Augmenting the Billiards Experience with Probabilistic Vision and Wearable Computers
We propose a practical application of wearable computing and augmented reality which enhances the game of billiards. A vision algorithm is implemented which operates in interactiv...
Tony Jebara, Cyrus Eyster, Joshua Weaver, Thad Sta...
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AGENTS
1997
Springer
15 years 8 months ago
Creatures: Artificial Life Autonomous Software Agents for Home Entertainment
This paper gives a technical description of Creatures, a commercial home-entertainment software package. Creatures provides a simulated environment in which exist a number of synt...
Stephen Grand, Dave Cliff, Anil Malhotra
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HPCA
1996
IEEE
15 years 8 months ago
Protected, User-Level DMA for the SHRIMP Network Interface
Traditional DMA requires the operating system to perform many tasks to initiate a transfer, with overhead on the order of hundreds or thousands of CPU instructions. This paper des...
Matthias A. Blumrich, Cezary Dubnicki, Edward W. F...
ASPLOS
1996
ACM
15 years 8 months ago
Reducing Network Latency Using Subpages in a Global Memory Environment
New high-speed networks greatly encourage the use of network memory as a cache for virtual memory and file pages, thereby reducing the need for disk access. Becausepages are the f...
Hervé A. Jamrozik, Michael J. Feeley, Geoff...
VLDB
1992
ACM
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Practical Skew Handling in Parallel Joins
We present an approach to dealing with skew in parallel joins in database systems. Our approach is easily implementable within current parallel DBMS, and performs well on skewed d...
David J. DeWitt, Jeffrey F. Naughton, Donovan A. S...